The Egyptian striker Mo Salah of Liverpool scored the fastest hat-trick in the history of the Champions League.
The Reds No.11 started the group stage matchday 4 against the Rangers on the bench and appeared on the field only in the 68th minute, substituting Darwin Nunez, with the score 3:1 in favor of the Merseysiders. Eight minutes later, Mo Salah scored his first goal in this match. Four minutes after that, another one and scored a hat-trick almost immediately. For everything about everything, the Egyptian took 6 minutes and 12 seconds – this is the fastest hat-trick in the history of the Champions League.
The previous record was long held by Bafetimbi Gomis, who scored three times against Dinamo Zagreb in 8 minutes in 2011.
Salah’s new records
Another record, Mo Salah became the top scorer of the Champions League among all clubs in the English Premier League. He surpassed Drogba and Aguero, who scored 36 goals each, with 38 goals in Europe’s most prestigious competition to date. No.11 has a great opportunity to get a big lead over second-placed and retired Sergio Aguero and Didier Drogba.
In addition, Mohamed Salah became only the third player in the history of the Merseyside club to score a hat-trick after entering the field from the bench. The first was Irish defender Steve Staunton, the second was Steven Gerrard.
In total, the Egyptian striker scored 164 goals in 267 matches for the Reds. He went even further up the all-time top scorer list from Michael Owen in eighth place. The graduate of the Liverpool Academy and the owner of the 2001 Golden Ball has 158 goals. The great Kenny Dalglish has 172 goals scored – eight more than Mo Salah scored now, who is very likely to break the record of the legendary Scot this season.
